Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson (born 1944) is a British linguist. He is currently an emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on second language acquisition and language teaching.

Johnson was one the three members at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading. He later moved to the Department of Linguistic Science of University of Reading.

He became a Senior Lecturer to the University of Essex.

In 1994 he became a full professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University.

He was the founding editor of the Language Teaching Research journal.

He was also a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

In article entitled Comparing language teaching and other-skill teaching: Has the language teacher anything to learn?, published in System, Johnson claimed that the other-skill instructors provide significance performance-based feedback to students and that the skill training observed is overwhelmingly needs-driven.

Johnson has publications in several major journals such as System, ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics, The Journals of Gerontology, Language Teaching Research.